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Updated: June 15, 2025
That would be altered as soon as the electric installation, for which Melrose had just signed the contract, was complete. In the centre of the wall opposite the window, through which a chill dawn was just beginning to penetrate, stood a fine armoire of carved Norman work. Faversham went to look at it, and vaguely opened one of its drawers.
As he moved backwards and forwards between his chest of drawers and dressing-table, he would cast frequent affectionate glances at his double, now in the glass of the armoire, now in that above the chimney. He was favouring me meantime with a running monologue of an autobiographical complexion. 'I am a self-educated man. My father was a wine merchant in Leeds.
In the shelves of an oak armoire stood jars and plates of old French china, and the black and white of etchings not to be found in the Haymarket or in Bond Street, stood out against the splendour of a Japanese paper.
"I want you to see an armoire that he has carved, it is up in our exhibition room." Armorer said, "You seem to get on very well with your working people, Mr. Lossing." "I think we generally get on well with them, and they do well themselves, in these Western towns. For one thing, we haven't much organization to fight, and for another thing, the individual workman has a better chance to rise.
There was no figure in the piece, which was bounded on one side by a great armoire, and on the other by the jamb of the chimney; but from extreme corner projected the plume of a helmet and the tip of a lance. There was someone there; someone riding towards the trees. It grew upon Philip that that little wood was a happy place, most happy and desirable.
Only a panelled door divided him from the girl who, wayward and scornful as she had ever been to him, yet kept his heart dangling at her waist-belt as truly as if it had been the golden key of her armoire.
"I will leave it; for, though it contains so much that I prize, and which is really of great importance to myself, it contains nothing for which I shall have immediate occasion." "In that case, it were better that I place the package in which we have a common interest in an armoire, or in my secretary, and that you keep your precious effects more immediately under your own eye."
He made her stick to her English and read Shakespeare aloud to him. Mrs. Rooth had recognised the importance of apartments in which they should be able to receive so beneficent a visitor, and was now mistress of a small salon with a balcony and a rickety flower-stand to say nothing of a view of many roofs and chimneys a very uneven waxed floor, an empire clock, an armoire
He set the rabbits on the floor, where they gave themselves a shake, and hopped off towards the shelter of the window-curtains. 'Now you are the very man I wanted, said he, 'and I am going to make you sing for your supper. He stepped to the armoire, and drew out a long cloak of scarlet, furred with ermine.
Elliott sat smoking and sketching with a piece of charcoal by the window. "Hello," he said without looking around. Clifford gazed absently at the back of his head, murmuring, "I'm afraid, I'm afraid that man is too innocent. I say, Elliott," he said, at last, "Hastings, you know the chap that old Tabby Byram came around here to tell us about the day you had to hide Colette in the armoire "
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